Why do you think that the biblical Adam and Eve contradict science?

Answer 1

they don't. Scientist have traced back all mankind to one woman- Eve.

Answer 2

Because it does. You can't give birth to, let alone sustain a species with only one fertile mating pair. Even if Eve lived long enough to have that many children, that leaves the inbreeding question. Regardless of whether or not inbreeding was accepted back then, the practice is not without its genetic problems.

No, we won't have extra arms and toes sort of deformities. But because antibodies are often passed from mother to offspring, both through the womb and through nursing, the same antibodies are shared within an inbred gene pool. If no new antibodies are developed and passed to offspring, then this leads to a weakened immune system. Pretty soon, even so much as a cold would become deadly.

So therefore, Adam and Eve's biblical tale is clearly contradicted by known science, both for problems that result from inbreeding(don't believe me, look up the physiology of cheetahs. After years of excessive hunting, the current population is descended from one common female and have a number of genetic problems as a result) and for the impossibility of Eve living long enough to birth enough surviving offspring to sustain the human species.

Also, keep in mind, that with humans and most species on the planet, females tend to outnumber males. The reason for this is that, well, males don't have to do much. All males have to do is fertilize. Females are the ones who have to carry, birth, and care for the offspring. One male can fertilize dozens of females, where only one female can be pregnant at a time. To ensure the genes are passed on, the males mate with as many females as possible for as many surviving offspring as possible.

Therefore, there's no way that the Adam and Eve story of them being the parents of the entire human species could happen, regardless of how long she lived and how long she was fertile. Even if she beat the numbers, there's genetic problems from inbreeding and an imbalance in male-to-female ratios. It just wouldn't work.

But, stepping outside of science for a moment and into the realm of the biblical, there's a lost book of the Bible, two, in fact, that are the books of Adam and Eve. One has to wonder why those books were omitted, considering how crucial Creation is to Christians. I would imagine that, logically, the early Church would want those books to be included as they would likely detail the Creation far better than Genesis.

There must be something within those books that the Church leaders of the time didn't want to get out. Something to do with the Creation that would probably contradict what was said in Genesis. Therefore, they tossed out the books of Adam and Eve, deeming them heretical and not worthy to be included in the Bible, among other books.

There's a nice list of them here...

http://reluctant-messenger.com/council-of-laodicea.htm

Between the science and the logic deduced from the Council of Laodicea's removal of books from the Bible(to say nothing of mistranslations over 2000 years and the differences between various Christian denominations), it makes you wonder.

Answer 3

Adam is a key figure in Scripture. He is described as the "first Adam," the one who brought sin into the world. He made it necessary for Jesus, the "last Adam," to atone for all humans, and then rise from the grave with the promise of complete redemption for fallen man and fallen creation. If Adam was just a myth, we would not be able to fully understand the work of Jesus. If Adam and Eve were not real, then we ought to doubt whether their children were real too, and their children...and then we ought to doubt the first 11 chapters of Genesis, and so on. All the genealogies accept Adam as being a literal person, so their children Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:9,10; Luke 11:50,51) must be real too. Jesus was descended from Adam, and it is impossible to be descended from a myth.

Those who say that there are no absolutes are often very adamant about their belief. If they say that they are absolutely sure, then they are wrong because their own statement is an absolute. If they are not 100 percent sure, then there is a chance that they are wrong and they are risking their eternal salvation by trusting in a wrong belief. God tells us that there is an objective, absolute truth that is not subject to man’s interpretations or whims, on which we can base our eternity. That truth is the Word of God (John 17:7).

Answer 4

Sign of the times. During the this time, when the story was written, there was no formal education in science, most of science's greatest discoveries were not even discovered yet. Even if we were to go back in a time machine and explain things that seem simple to us to the people at that time, we would have to use a lot of metaphors to get our point across. Have you ever tried to explain something to a child, it's not always that easy. Take a look at science fiction literature of today, it is more believable because fantasy is based off of at least some scientific fact. Star Trek for instance, pure fantasy, but a lot of it is based off of scientific fact or theory. If a book about star trek were to be found by some other intelligent species 4000 years from now, they might not be able to determine if it is even fiction or not.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve don't contradict science, Adam & Eve are just a myth.

Answer 6

The story of Adam and Eve is metahor.
Metaphoric analogies cannot contradict science they exist in literature and art only.

Answer 7

It is because that Adam and Eve were not really the first people ever to be made by God. They were truly just the first descendants of the Jews whom God had given His choice as the first persons to be enlightened with the nature of God. The teachings about them was started with the wrong interpretations of the faith and until the truth will be found people will always end in reading the Book the incomplete way if not totally wrong.

Answer 8

I see no contradiction... God can do what ever he wants... and that is the way He did it... all science is from God... thus all science is good... just because man thinks he understands God's science dose not mean that God could not do something as simple for Him as creating Adam and Eve. In fact mankind dose not understand even a small % of God's science.

Answer 9

It contradicts science.

Adam looked at the animals and saw no others of his kind (this is the usual Christian interpretation of Genesis 2:20). Science says there would have been others.

Answer 10

The human race has been traced back, by leading scientist, to one group of brown-skinned homo sapiens in East Africa. Does this prove that it was Adam and Eve?- No. Time in the bible is off, and so is the truth. There was no garden of eden, we learned experience over billion of years of evolution.

Answer 11

Because "science" is a man created idea. It's only an idea. It's hard to comprend a God creating two living, breathing people. one from nothing and the other from the rib of the first. Women have one more set of ribs then men......did the writers of the Bible thousands of years ago know that due to "science"....No, because there would have been no way for them to know that.